the stories lined up. >> greta, i would add one more thing. the quote -- there's an unusual consistency between barack obama's public image and the private reality. i think that's actually true. and i think one of the things that the book demonstrates is that -- i mean, in some cases there's a wide divergence between public image and private reality that the story of john edwards and elizabeth edwards is the most dramatic example in the book where the gap between what the public saw and what they wanted the public to see and how they actually were in private was -- is yawning. it's a gap. obama, his public reality and the private reality was the narrowest. it's part of the reason he turned out to be a strong candidate and the reason why he won. they spent very little time in the obama campaign having to manage the problem of here's what we're trying to tell the public but here's what's really going on. for all these other campaigns there was enormous amounts of time and effort that was devoted by the staff to try to kind of bridge that gap. an